Abstract Learning Chinese character writing as a second or foreign language is a challenging experience for native English speakers according to research reports. They are likely frustrated when they are writing Chinese characters for classwork, homework, and quizzes or tests. This research uses the phenomenological approach to implement and examine the process of teaching and learning Chinese characters writing through a Brush-Marker-Pencil (BMP) method in Chinese language classes as a part of...

Introduction [excerpt] Why study designer handbags as a communication problem, one might ask? Well, for the past few years this trend has exploded throughout the female population. Younger and younger girls are carrying handbags made by designers such as Coach, Fendi, Gucci, Prada, and Louis Vuitton (to name a few), which each can cost hundreds to thousands of dollars. Workingwomen can afford to splurge on themselves from time to time, however, it is astonishing how many women are spending their hard earned...

Introduction [excerpts] The current study involves a textual analysis of the trial transcripts from United States of America v. Charles Novak and Henry Ach. This methodology involves a systematic description and analysis of fantasy themes, or mythic stories, and underlying rhetorical visions, or interpretive themes about reality, contained in the prosecution's opening statements, summation, and rebuttal summation.... [Ernest G.] Bormann's Symbolic Convergence Theory (SCT)...